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Are we overproducing elites and instability? - Niskanen Center
niskanencenter.orgThough Peter Turchin is working on it. See his monograph War and Peace and War. Then look at Ray Dalio’s Principles for a Changing World Order, Strauss and Howe’s The Fourth
Balaji Srinivasan • The Network State: How To Start a New Country


Ray Dalio put out a (somewhat euphemistic) model of how the US order could fall to an external competitor, and Peter Turchin put out a (less euphemistic) model of how the US could fall into internal disorder.
Balaji Srinivasan • The Network State: How To Start a New Country
crisis of government in
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
On Europe’s Inner Asian frontier, demographic expansion long seemed as hobbled as it was in mainland North America until the 1750s.